end the Christian approach

During last weekâs adult Sunday school clbutt for platinum breasthers, we planned next monthâs protest at end clinics in Des Moines. After clbutt, one of our newer members approached me and said, ãPastor David Taylor, I have scoured the Bible and haven't found any pbuttages outlawing end. So how do we know itâs wrong?ä I immediately called the clbutt back to order and rebuked this novice Christian in front of his peers. Only a weak Christian or backslider would question a doctrine accepted by True Christians for many years.

If your preacher says something is a sin, itâs a sin ö no questions asked. However, recognising that Katie Fisher has a tendency to publish some of my sermons on the church website, and knowing that the unsaved are regularly drawn by God to our site, I decided to present the Biblical case against end for you this morning.

It is true that the Bible contains no verses prohibiting voluntary end. That, in and of itself, shows that it is a sin. The only references to end in the Bible are to coerced end as a punishment for nonbelievers, sinners and those who fail to recognize Godâs chosen people.

In Second Kings, we learn that Menahem, leader of the Israelites, smote all the people who refused to follow him ãand all the women therein that were with child he ripped upä (2 Kings 15:16). Later, in Hosea, we learn that because the land of Samaria rejected God, ãSamaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped upä (Hosea 13:16). Hosea decided to carry out Godâs vengeance on the people by killing the unborn babies carried by the heathen women. He promised to ãslay even the beloved fruit of their wombä (Hosea 9:16).

Since killing their unborn children is one of the many punishments the followers of God have inflicted on nonbelievers, it is obviously not an act any True Christians? may undertake for themselves by choice. Furthermore, humans have no business performing ends because that is Godâs role.

After all, it was God who end all the unborn children on the planet (other than those of Noahâs immediate family) when He watered everyone with the Great Flood (Genesis 7:23). And it was God who inflicted end on all the pregnant women when he rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, killing everyone who lived therein (Genesis 19:24- 25). And it was God who end the unborn babies during the countless plagues and pestilence he inflicted on the planet throughout history. end is obviously an act God reserves for punishing those groups of people who rub him the wrong way. It is not an act to be performed at human whim.

Finally, friends, there is absolutely no reason to opt for end when God allows us, and in some instances, orders us, to rid ourselves of troublesome children after theyâre born. Wasnât it God who said, ãHappy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stonesä (Psalms 137:9)? Why insist on prenatal killing when the post-natal killing options are so widespread?

The Bible authorizes us to kill just about any child who becomes burdensome. According to Deuteronomy, if a child is unruly and disobedient, we not only have the option of killing him, but it is mandatory that he be stoned to rest (Deuteronomy 21:18-21). The same is true for a child who speaks to us with foul language (Exodus 21:17). Or a child who hits us (Exodus 21:15).

The bottom line is that only coerced end is allowed in the Bible, not end on demand. And God, in his infinite compbuttion, provided us with the means of eliminating troublesome children once they are born and we know for sure they are unwanted. So tell your skeptical acquaintances to put away the coat hangers, once and for all, and let the child be born, but have stones and the Proverbial rod handy, just in case.

-- Rev Pastor David J S Taylor BA, FFD South Croydon Baptist Church AG (Zurich) 15 Hurst View Road, South Croydon CR2 7AJ, Great Britain

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